35-year old Kyle Williams was indicted by a Dakota County Grand Jury on first-degree and second-degree murder charges connected to the strangulation death of 36-year-old Kelly Jo Kocurek of Hastings on May 23, 2021 in a Hastings hotel room.
According to the criminal complaint, Kocurek was found unresponsive, bloody and bruised May 18, 2021, in a room at Coratel Inn and Suites.
She was taken to Regions Hospital in St. Paul and was in a coma before dying five days later.
Kocurek grew up in Hastings and had been living in Red Wing.
Wiiliams was ruled competent for trial by a Dakota County Judge after reviewing the results of another round of psychological testing.
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